How To Install rc on Rocky Linux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install rc on Rocky Linux 8. rc is Re-implementation for Unix of the Plan 9 shell

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install rc on Rocky Linux 8.

What is rc

Rc is a command interpreter for Plan 9 that provides similar facilities to UNIX’s Bourne shell, with some small additions and less idiosyncratic syntax. This is a re-implementation for Unix, by Byron Rakitzis, of the Plan 9 shell.

We can use yum or dnf to install rc on Rocky Linux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install rc.

Install rc on Rocky Linux 8 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install rc using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install rc

Install rc on Rocky Linux 8 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install rc using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install rc

How To Uninstall rc on Rocky Linux 8

To uninstall only the rc package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove rc

rc Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/usr/bin/rc
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/e0
/usr/lib/.build-id/e0/7b08b8512d19892fbebd9434957349c071df2b
/usr/share/doc/rc
/usr/share/doc/rc/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/rc/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/rc/EXAMPLES
/usr/share/doc/rc/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/rc/README
/usr/share/licenses/rc
/usr/share/licenses/rc/COPYING
/usr/share/man/man1/rc.1.gz

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install rc on Rocky Linux 8 using yum and dnf.